Pink Speakeasy

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A LEGACY CONTINUED...

MARGARET ELIZABETH FOSTER - THE MATRIARCH

ANNA MARGARET

GRAYSON

The woman who dared Eartha Kitt to audition for the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. However, there’s much more to her story. Roxie Spino took her love for the arts just as seriously and passionately as her older sister, making it a lifelong career. She first began as a Katherine Dunham dancer in the 1940s along with her sister and one of her closest friends, Eartha Kitt, first beginning at the Katherine Dunham Dance School in 1939, then being promoted to the dance troupe. In 1947, she left the Katherine Dunham Dance Co to pursue putting on her own show with her own dancers touring different NYC nightclubs and gaining much popularity, eventually earning her a role on Broadway in Finnian’s Rainbow. After a long career on stage, she decided to go a different route, she opened a dance school in Harlem which helped many stars along their way. Additionally, she had always had a love for clothes, so she affectionately went into fashion design, designing costumes for Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaunghn, Freda Payne and many others.

It all started with a single decision. In the backdrop of the Great Migration, Margaret Elizabeth Foster knew her children needed an environment to foster their creative talents. She raised her children in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, further inspiring their love for the arts that has been passed down from generation to generation. Her bold, head-strong decisions and risks set a precedent for her children to always choose their passion first, and take that leap, no matter how big it might be. She made sure her children knew that she will be their foundation for whatever path they choose, as long as it brought them joy.

One of two daughters of Margaret Elizabeth Foster, who both inherited the love for dance and the arts. Anna Maragret Grayson was one of the first Katherine Dunham dancers, starting in 1945 and performed the popular Katherine Dunham shows such as Carribean Rhapsody and Caribe Song. She traveled all over the world as a dancer in the 1940s all while raising her two sons, continuing the tradition of imbuing the love of the arts in them; a family tradition. Even better, she was able to live her dreams along with her sister, Roxie Spino, and made a lifelong friend along the way in a woman named Eartha Kitt. Not only was Anna Margaret a Katherine Dunham dancer, she also was the wardrobe mistress to Katherine Dunham and a close confidant. After her time as a dancer, Anna Margaret went on to do many amazing things, one of them being opening a dance school with her eldest son Jojo Smith in the 1970s called Jojo’s Dance Factory which was a highly successful dance school. Jojo’s Dance Factory is now known as Broadway Dance Center today.

ROXIE SPINO

The Pink Speakeasy isn’t just the greatest, pinkest performance venue you have ever seen. It’s also a love letter to the women who came before us in the family of our Mother-Daughter duo. They have laid down the groundwork to put the love of art and dance in our bones so that we can continue the legacy they've laid down today.

Affectionately referred to as Margaret Elizabeth Foster’s foster daughter, Eartha Kitt has always been seen and treated as family and shared the same love for the arts as us. Not only she was a Renaissance woman herself, but she also frequently funded and supported many artists and art projects one example being the Katherine Dunham Foundation for the Preservation of Cultural Arts. Not only did Eartha Kitt show us how life changing art can be but also how important it is to support it and uplift it in any way we can.

EARTHA KITT

All of these women inspired us to make a space like The Pink Speakeasy to provide a safe, beautiful space to celebrate art in its uninhibited form.

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CLIENT FEEDBACK

Elise G

Teashya

Loved this space!!!! The details are so thoughtful and our host was wonderful. She greeted us, was so kind and showed us around the space. Beautiful light in all rooms and fun bathrooms as well.

This apartment had me the little 90s Barbie pink fantasy girl in me screaming with excitement! It was the cutest, most thoughtful Airbnb I have ever stayed in. As a business owner, I am admittedly hard to please. However, I was appreciative of every detail Mignon thought of- from the binder of local recommendations to the color coordinated dish soap on the kitchen counter. Each room is temperature controlled. The floors in both bathrooms are heated. It really is a pink dream apartment, with incredible customer service which is very important to me. She was even thoughtful & lovely enough to gift me pink birthday roses upon arrival! Before leaving, I tried her local recommendation of Brownstone Pancake Factory and lovedddd it. We also walked the block and met the friendliest locals, with close access to convenience stores. My girls and I were so in love, we vowed to come back here whenever we travel to NY. I'm so happy to have found this place. Thank you Mignon for a special birthday!

Stacy

This has been the prettiest Airbnb I’ve ever stayed at I most definitely would love to stay here again while visiting NYC.

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